Supreme Court Brings Pregnancy Discrimination Case Against UPS Back to Life

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The Supreme Court sent a case back to the lower courts on Wednesday, giving Peggy Young, who says that UPS discriminated against her while she was pregnant, another chance to argue her side. The 6–3 majority said that a lower court, which sided with UPS, used the wrong standard to reach its decision. Since the case was filed, UPS changed their policy so that pregnant women receive better accommodations. Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas dissented, seeing no “animus or hostility to pregnant women” — although they conceded that “the difficulties pregnant women face in the workplace are and do remain an issue of nationalimportance.”